Infectious Typhoid Flashcards

1
Q

Fever
Abdominal pain
Enlarged peyer’s and mesenteric LN

A

Typhoid Enteric fever

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2
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Typhoid organism

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S typhi

S paratyphi

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3
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Human host
Food/water borne
Fecal contamination by ill or asymptomatic chronic carrier
Sexual
Health care exposure
A

Typhoid

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4
Q

Clone H58 is resistant to

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Quinolone

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5
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Not a known risk factor for enteric fever

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Recent travel to SEA

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6
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Typhoid rf:

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Contaminated food
Flooding
Sewage fertilized crop
Ill household contact
Prior H pylori infection (chronic reduced gastric content)
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7
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Most prominent typhoid symptom

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Fever >75%

Abd pain 30-40-%

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8
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Milder form presenting with GI symptom

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Paratyphi S

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9
Q

Rash of enteric fever

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rose spot on trunk or chest

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10
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Early physical finding 30%
Faint salmon colored blanching maculopapular rash on trunk and chest
Salmonella can be cultured from punch biopsy

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Rose spots

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11
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Life threatening GI complication such as bleeding and intestinal perforation occur during

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3rd to 4th week

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12
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Neurologic manifestation 2-40%

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Meningitis
GBS
Neuritis
Neuropsychiatric symptoms (muttering delirium or coma vigil)

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13
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Individuals are likely to become chronic carriers of S typhi

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Female
Infant
Persons with biliary abnormality
Concurrent bladder infection / S. haematobium

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14
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S typhi pxs may excrete it in feces for up to

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3 mos

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15
Q

Definitive dx of Typhoid

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Isolation of S typhi from blood, bone marrow, sterile site, rose spot, stool

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16
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Gives more than 80% yield not reduced up to 5 d of prior antibiotic therapy

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Bone marrow

17
Q

Culture of intestinal secretion could br kbtajned by

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duodenal string test

18
Q

serologic test for febrile agglutinnin

Simple rapid limited sensitivity and specificity

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Widal test

19
Q

Typhoid tx

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Fluoroquinolone cure rate of 98%

Relapse and fecal carriage rage <2%

20
Q

Dsc strain

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Ciprofloxacin

21
Q

Typhoid vaccine

A

TY21a oral live attenuated

6 years

22
Q

Enteric fever

A

Salmonella typhi
Salmonella para typhi

If not 2, non-enteric

23
Q

Blood

24
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Urine culture

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Stool culture
3rd week of illness
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Brunner’s gland
Duodenum
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Peyer’s
Ileum
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Picking at bed clothes | Imaginary objects
coma vigil
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Low utterences Slurring of speech Restlesness
Muttering delirium
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Reservoir of salmonella
Gallbladder
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Most prominent symptom
Fever
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Roth spot
Infective endocarditis
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Board like abdomen
Perforated typhoid ileitis
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Most common site of perforation in bowel
Cecum
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Cecum rupture is likely bec of
Law of laplace The higher the diameter, the higher pressure
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Single most sensitive method of diagnosis of Typhoid fever
Blood or bone marrow c
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Empiric tx for typhoid
Ceftriaxone
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Cephalosporins for empiric tx of enteric fever
Cefotaxime 2gm q8 IV Cefixime 400mg BID PO Ceftriaxone 2gm/day IV
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Optimal tx for fully susceptible enteric fever in adult
Ciprofloxacin